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This is my last week of lectures for the semester. I have no finals but luckily for me I do have four more papers and a group project, all due in the next two weeks. So in an effort to avoid the library I took up my friend Ariella's invite to a cocktail/house warming party in south Dublin this past weekend. Getting to see how non students live is always nice, plus we ended the night at a horrible yet funny club. It had fake palm trees, arcade-esq carpet, and every neon light ever created plus they played every song from those club mixes that you see in infomercials.
Other than that I've been trying to read/do research, plan out some travels for May, and just hang out. 3 Euro drinks are gone from the school bar so a bar down the road picked it up, so new Tuesday hang out, also I never want to eat chipper again (fast food), oh and NEVER go see The Orphanage unless you really like being scared, but go see Shine A Light if you like music esp. the Rolling Stones.
I just realized that I haven't posted any pictures of my school or things and places that I do or go to in my everyday life so I am going to try to do more of that. I neglected to think that normal things I do are as interesting if not more than the random things I go to or see. So more everyday pictures will be happening.

Beautiful look at the Helix (right) and the northern part of campus.

Middle of campus with the Library at the far end. Really not the prettiest campus.

IES took me to dinner. It was the good-bye dinner for everyone else except DCU. I think wer're the black sheep of the IES family but whatever, I got a drink and dinner out of it.

The place was a really nice Italian restaurant. My cab driver kept telling me this. There were also wine bottles hanging from the ceiling.

Its 15 Euro for a pitcher of Heineken and a very large bowl of really good chicken wings. If you ever go to Dublin be sure to hit up the Ivy House in Drumcondra . Good craic, good food, you can't go wrong.

No pictures from the cocktail party but plenty from the weird club. The whole night was a lot like this, blurry and creepy/funny with a lot of neon. I actually know this guy so he's not a random club creep.
This guy I do not know. He and his friend hijacked my camera for a few minutes and preceded to take pictures with Ariella and I. After this the night basically ended, Ari and I weren't able to dance to cheesy music anymore and the boys were well locked. Good thing for taxis.

essay headaches and chocolate muffins

Well my time in Dublin is quickly passing me by and my calendar is showing fewer and fewer days until I go home. The next month is going to be a whirlwind of writing more essays and a rushing to make travel plans for May. That also reminds me, a big thank you to anyone who suffered through my survey. It actually did help my paper a lot and I ended up with more material than required pages. And to answer a few questions, I was not paid by Apple for the survey, I did not do the survey for them, and I really wasn't interested in the products at all. My paper was about branding and how, consumers as individuals and communities, give meaning to brands and thus are co-creators of them. I wanted to show that even though we are an ad-savvy society, we do in fact play a huge role in our consumer driven lives.
I worked harder on that paper than I've possibly ever worked on an assignment. I came across some interesting theories about brands and society, etc. but in the end I just came up with a huge distaste for theories. I like facts a lot now so I am happy to be writing a law paper next. I promise, no more surveys.
I haven't taken any pictures lately, mainly due to lack of time/freedom from school. But I have decided to pick up a photography art minor for next year. Thus giving me all the time in the world to take pictures and even showing me how to properly use this new camera of mine. I am pretty excited because really the hardest I've ever worked in a class, besides this one in Dublin, has been in my photo and computer graphics classes. I am drawing challenged but I am alright behind a camera.
But thank you all again for taking the survey and I hope to put up some Dublin adventure pictures on here soon. The modern art museum has been calling my name for quite some time now so maybe I'll make it there this week with some pictures to follow.

Slainte

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Right now I am busily working on a advertising project for one of my classes. So for part of it I am doing a survey...this is where you come in. I would love for you to take it, actually I kind of need to get everyone I know to take it. It won't take very long, I am talking 15 minutes max (seriously that's not that long). So just follow the link. You need to watch all three of the videos I  posted, if these should not work try and watch them on here. This should work but I haven't posted videos on here before. Thanks so much and pass it on if you can. 

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